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jw the temperature c3 rj j Chicago axd vicinity s f fair with i*tn;_r temperature ytur-mday hki tuesday nlgjit wednesday partly cloudy and much warmer winds becoming fresh south to southwext â– , temperatchk ( , highest lowest â€” 10 mean o Chicago examiner ft final 1 edition 1 } yol xyl no ivj.â€”a m * * * tuesday Chicago february 5 1918 tuesday reguteijd ptotsot twso af fi , t ta"*i in Chicago elsewheue d s patrat office Â«__ â€” -Â»> u v-j - o and bubcbbs three cents kaiser's palace is bombed daniels backs baker pledge of 500,000 army washington feb 4.â€”secre tary of the navy daniels referring to-night to secretary of war baker's statement that 500 000 american soldiers would be in france early in the year said he could be quoted as saying when secretary baker saya the men will be there mr ba ker is right the navy is taking over numbers of ships owned by the war department and will man them at once out of the 95,000 reserves the navy department has available army people say there will be no difficulty in in creasing pershing's army to 500,000 as he has such a large proportion of that number in france u.s calls coal in city ample government says individual cases of distress are being relieved warmer weather near despite the intense cold ranging to 10 degrees below zero chicago's fuel situation is growing steaijlly better the fuel administration an nounced last night widely circulated reports declared the coal crisis has passed beyond control lkaymond e durham chairman of the cook county fuel administration committee cited the following facts and figures total coal receipts were 2,441 cars or 139,750 tons railroads placed 765 cars in coal yards and 395 on team tracks total 57,090 tons held in railroad yards for switching were 2,048 cars or 102 400 tons 8,004 tons eor sale the commonwealth edison com pany will sell s.ooo tons direct to consumers beginning to-day eighty-pound sacks will be sold for 25 cents distribution will be made at the company's plants at 22d and fiske sts and 25th and quarrie sts the same corporation placed 100 cars at the disposal of dealers on the northwest side the weather bureau added the pre diction of steadily rising tempera tures to-day and to-morrow jmr durham asked washington to stop diversion of chicago-bound coal immediately state fuel administrator j e wil liams ordered Illinois mines to con sign their entire output to-day to do mestic consumers complaints are normal w c wyatt secretary of the coun ty administration reported com plaints yesterday did not exceed nor mal coal will be rushed to dealers in the 27th ward where conditions were most acute public schools received twenty four cars yesterday three schools â€” brentano seeley and nineteenth street school closed the clay school in hegewisch has been closed since last week schools are closed oak i'ark and river forest town ships high schools were closed indefi nitely joliet schools were ordered closed for another week relief for Chicago suburbs was promised to-day as tollows winnetka 2 cars wumette *>;' evanston 9 norwood park 1 aus-j tin 4 oak jpark 5 may wood 4 highlaml i'ark 5 and highwood 1 mrs lowden s sister loses 30,000 gems new york feb 4 the theft of 30,000 worth of jewels belonging to jmrs francis 1 carolan at the st regis hotel was reported to the police to-night mrs carolan is a daughter of tho late george m pullman of Chicago and a sister of jmrs frank o i.owden wife of the clovernor of Illinois british m p fined 2,000 for hoarding london feb 4 â€” a member of parliament john maccaw was to day fined 2,000 and costs for hoard wilson places fuel oil men under license president issues drastic decree shipment priority is given to orders for war supplies mark requa department execu tive to have charge under coal head.oftreightmovemenl by arthur constantine international news servlee staff cor respondent washington feb 4 president j wilson averted a fuel oil shortage to-day by placing distribution under the federal licensing system all distributors whose sales amount to more than 100,000 barrels annually must take out licenses from the fuel administration approximately 200 oil firms are affected by ths order the sale and use of gasoline are not affected by the order it was stated authoritatively at the fuel adminis tration a fp'rmal supplementary statement from the fuel administration also an nounced that the consumption of fuel cil would be exempt from the fuel or der of jan 17 providing for workless days war supply is insured the extension of government con trol to-day over the distribution of fuel oil insures the united states and the allies an adequate supply of oil for carrying on the war it will remove from general consumption approximately 50,000,000 barrels a year the fuel administration in an nouncing to-day that by the provi sions of the president's proclamation it would hereafter control the distri bution of fuel oil restricted its rea sons for the step to this explanation the presidential proclamation put ting certain oil distributors under li cense is for the purpose of exercising adequate control in view of the fact that transportation facilities are be coming inadequate to supply prompt ly and satisfactorily all consumers now having contracts for fuel oil in the event of insufficient trans portation facilities it is desirable that vital industries connected with the national welfare shall receive first consideration priorities announced the fuel administration listed fu ture distribution in this order of pri ority iâ€”railroads1 â€” railroads and bunker fuel 2 â€” export deliveries or shipments for the united states army or navy 3 â€” export shipments for the navies and other war purposes of the allies 4 â€” hospitals where oil is now being used as fuel s public utilities and domestic consumers now using fuel oil in cluding gas oil 6 â€” shipyards engaged in govern ment work 7 â€” navy yards bâ€”arsenals.8 â€” arsenals 9 â€” plants engaged in manufacture production and storage of food prod ucts 10 â€” army and navy cantonments where oil is now being used as fuel 11 â€” industrial consumers engaged in the manufacture of munitions and other articles under government or der 12 â€” all other classes the enforcement of thc fuel admin istration's control over oil distribu tion will he under the general di rection of mark requa of california director of the petroleum division of tlie tuel adussiissu'atiou wilson never got austro peace speech washington feb 4 â€” president wilson never received the peace qpeech of count czernin the austrian premier either before or after its de livery through any official or diplo matic channel this statement was unqualifiedly made at the state de partment to-day m'adoo puts taboo on home building wasuington feb 4 â€” secretary mcadoo to-day extended his plan for conserving capital and labor to in clude the prospective home builder he strongly advised that materials valuable labor and credit be not hkwi ctnfeht ni km iii kuehlmann and czernin quit russ parley for session in ber lin today on austria's demand vienna's pressure for peace with no annexations threatens break between central powers geneva feb 4 â€” the journal de geneve learns from berlin that strikers threw a bomb against the imperial palace troops and police dispersed the strikers trees in the parks were uprooted and sawed into pieces london feb 4 â€” the sudden re turn to berlin of dr von kuehlmann and count czernin is considered in german political circles as presaging the rupture of the negotiations with russia at brest-litovsk the conference to be held in ber lin to which the german and aus trian foreign secretaries have been summoned is to consider the general peace situation it is reported premier radoslavoff of bulgaria and the grand vizier t_mat pasha of turkey will attend the meeting say berlin advices a semi-official berlin dispatch says the high political and military con ference held there discussed the food situation and germany's aims in the east the conclusion of peace with the ukraine was especially consid ered berlin meeting likely to test teuton union by h h stansbury staff correspondent of the Chicago examiner washington feb 4.â€”adminis tration officials to-day predicted the conference scheduled to take place in berlin to-morrow between states men of austria and germ-any will be the test of future relations between the teutonic empires unofficial advices reported count czernin austrian foreign minister en route to the german capital to meet german foreign minister von kuehlmann and ceneral l,udendorff german quartermaster general the conference will bring together i the most potential political influ ences of germany and austria state department officials believe czernin has planned a vigorous pro test against the german annexation program in the east but the fact that thc conference is to take place in berlin where every influence at the command of the hohenzollerns can be brought to bear is not considered encouraging germans want two provinces the german program over which controversy has arisen is understood to be as follows russian poland to be attached to galicia the kingdom of poland thus unit ed to be joined by personal union to austria-hungary courland to be declared a duke dom lithuania to be a principality courland and lithuania to be at tached by personal union to the prus sian state czernin's objection is believed to be based on fears austria will be swept by a revolution if any plan ia adopted that will prolong the war ignore ukrasman rebels geneva feb 4 the eentral pow ers will not withdraw or qualify their | recognition of the first ukranian del jegation to the brest-lltovsk parley jas a plenipotentiary body representa tive of the ukkranlan republic count i czernin austro-hungarian foreign â€¢ minister announced at friday's ses sion of the cs.nference according to | the german account of the proceed i ings the question was brought up by the ' eolslieviki who contended the second i ukranian delegation had displaced the 1 original body two american flyers down 3 german planes daris feb 4 members of the *â– lafayette escadrille continued their brilliant exploits over the french front during the last few days bringing down three german machines thomas hitchcock jr 17 years old son of the american turf man downed two enemy airmen david e putnam of brooldine mass brought down his third machine both have been on the battle front less than three months and have not yet been transferred to the american army veeder breaks federal seals packers attorney defies heney who may start mandamus proceedings to-day henry veeder attorney for swift & co yesterday broke the seals placed on his vault by officials of the federal trade commission he re moved correspondence and records de manded of him by francis j heney special attorney for the commission mr veeder has not only violated the federal trade commission law but by breaking the seals he has further made himself liable mr heney said last night we want the records and we propose to get them heney conferred until midnight with united states district attorney clyne later he said we have not determined fully what procedure we will take but probably we will commence man damus proceedings either to-day or to-morrow to compel mr veeder to produce the records in question if this method does not prove successful there are other ways for us to act a federal grand jury is about to convene possibly it has some powers which we do not pos sess can't fish in my office the conference between heney and clyne followed veeder's point dlanlc refusal to give up the correspondence files mr veeder closed the day's contro versy with heney by issuing a type ! written statement to the press he amplified it by saying he was in | sisting only on his constitutional | rights the statement said in part much of the coirespondencc is | in the nature of questions from clients about their business and > opinions in answer thereto and are therefore or a confidential nature | and for that reason privileged under the statute mr heney probably has the right to inspect documents which i hold as custo dian for clients under investigation that right i have never denied he has not however the right to search through my personal files for the alleged purpose of ascer taining whether there is anything in those files which will be rele vant to tho inquiry papers have been taken from the files which were personal and which had absolutely no bearing upon the investigation 1 became i convinced that the inspection was a mere fishing expedition i there fore feel justified in insisting upon my constitutional rights and refuse to permit a fishing excur sipn through my files veeder late in the afternoon an nounced that ho had employed attor j ney john j healy to represent him in ! his clash with heney navy order to close cabarets says moffett buffet flats and vicious cabarets face naval supervision capt w a jmoffeit announced yesterday sec retary daniels lias ordered all dis orderly resorts within five miles of a camp closed and capt moffett says the order applies to a five-mile radius from cam grant 3-day close order given canada shops ottawa o-.t feb 4 an order was adopted by the cabinet to-night suspending the operation of manufac turing plante feb 9 10 and 11 as a conservation measure the order in cludes all munition plants the third carload of coal consigned in three weeks to the lake bluff home of stanley field now in france for the bed cross was seized yes terday lake county's fuel admin istrator lewis p erskine ordered the forty tons distributed among many families | stanley field's coal is seized for poor big drive planned byu.s and allies americans while taking small part at first expected to turn tide by increasing numbers entente outnumbers foe in man power and british are likely to strike first in flanders washington fe 4 without waiting to see whether ger many's workmen can disarm the prussian war machine the allies are preparing to deliver a smashing blow to that machine on the western front this information coming from british sources is based on reports , from the inter-allied war council both military and political consid erations were advanced it was learned for a strong allied offensive pershing's men give allies preponderance thanks to the readiness of gen pershing's forces to hold a sector of the front in lorraine the allies now feel themselves stronger than the germans in men and munitions with the prussian junkers po litical control at home threatened by strikes the allied council decide it is understood to reinforce the ger man workmen with an irresistible drive on the prussian machine at tho front the plan of campaign according to the information available to-night calls for a general allied offensive all along the front from the vosges to the sea j drive to center | in flanders but the center of the big drive will be in flanders with the eritish do i ing the heavy work hitherto the strong british thrusts have been | turned aside or repulsed with lncon ! siderable gains because the germans have been able to strip other sectors of men and guns and rush them to the defense of any threatened zone with gen pershing holding a sec tor a great number_pf veteran french fighters have been released to bolster up the line held by the french army between the americans in lorraine and the british in flanders information from british sources is that the war council considers the whole line strong enough to keep the germans busy everywhere and cripple the once great mobility of the ilin deirburg reserves . british strength to be used first flanders is to see the heaviest fighting at first partly because of british strength tn munitions and j partly because it is imperative that | the germans tie driven back upon and if possible beyond their submarine bases on the belgian coast if the general attack all along the i line develops any weakness in the ! german defenses the weak spot will ibe hammered with all thc strength | the allk can muster it was said attention was directed by one brlt ; ish authority to the fact thut the new | plan of campaign ls coincident with j american readiness to bear a share in the fighting an,l american par ! tscipation in the activities of the war council the british view is that gen persh ing's forces are now holding a vital part of the line if there be no changes one o.fi : cer said to-day the provinces of al sace and lorraine will probably be the scene of the hardest fighting ln which any of our army corps will be engage up to the end of the war 1 do not know that there was any definite purpose in so placing the american army but the fact ls that it sooner or later will occupy the two provinces which have the most practical and at the same time the most sentimental interest of any ter ritory in eurone '* germans mass 2,700,000 men on west front paris feb 4 field marshal von hindenburg has massed iso to 190 divisions totaling 2,700,000 to 2,850,000 men on the western front in preparation for the spring drive many of the troops have been drawn from the russian front about sixty-five of the divisions are being held in reserve germany still has about sixty divisions on the eastern front but they are composed of worn-out sol diers the others having been moved to the west the greatest strength of the german line in france and bel gium since last spring was 155 divisions military experts say russians wage war on rumania two divisions of the bolshevik troops routed in battle and disarmed london feb 4 official tele grams dispatched'from jassy satur day say the greater part cf the rou manian army ls engaged ir fighting russian troops the russians are overrunning mol davia and bessarabia and are con centrating in bukowina after twenty-four hours fighting the roumanians disarmed the 9th russian division which attacked galatz taking over fifty guns and surrounded and disarmed the sth russian division which attacked the ! center of the moldavian front this division was sent under con voy to russia ** fighting is ln progress between the roumanians and the bolshevik all over bessarabia as far as the dnles i ter i heds battle in lielsingfors stockholm feb 4.â€”helsin-4 | fors the capital of finland is still in the hands o the bolshevik red guard and continues to be the scene of violent street fighting sweden does not expect to inter vene in finland premier eden an nounced to-day he expressed how ever warm sympathy with the peo ple of the new republic fire on swedish vvanship ited guards f.red on a swedish gunboat and swedish steamers at the island of raefso near myantyuiuoto finland sesterday p.uosian sailors and red guard boarded the gunboat and explained they had thought the ships were carrying troops and munitions as | the vessels were going to take on ! swedish citizens leaving finland all j but the gunboat were permitted to j proceed mary's little ad leads to u s court to become a hetty green via mail was mary paulson's dream adver tisements of the instant vulcanlzer caused 600 persons to send money fsir wliich the government claims she made no satisfactory return mary whose home is at 5601 aberdeen st was indicted by a federal grand jury she will be arraigned thursday be fore judge landis pastor is sued in berwyn church fight j means smith an attorney sued the rev w clyde smith pastor of the first presbyterian church of berwyn for 25,000 yesterday a j durham an elder said attorney smith was dropped from the church last november after having driven out the previous pastor he said the rev smith had made certain state ments concerning tho attorney last sunday please mr weather man let this be true fair with rising temperature is the weather forecast for to-day the temperature will rise above the freez ing point by night and continue ris ing wednesday it was predicted the coldest recorded at the weather bu reau yesterday was 10 below at 7:45 a m it was as low a 18 below ill outlying districts pershing men beat off new attach yankee gunners learn teutonflj plans and smash massecjfl raiders with peadly barrage â– ju s forces now northwest 1 of toul 12 miles from j german fortress of metz i by newton c parke j { staff correspondent of the interna j tional news service 3 with the american abm_j in france feb 4 \ a now permitted by the ;.Â« tary censor to announce that ifl americans hold a sector ia tlie bfl tie line at a point to thc nortlr.vfl of toul m toul is the great french tortifl about forty miles to thc westflj nancy fl prompt action by the americaj^h artillery prevented another germa^h raid early to-day fl the officers who directed tfl sammies fire hare no doubt tfl heavy casualties were inflicted ufl the germans massed for attackfl learn german plans h a\d nip attack flj information was received thflj the enemy intended to attack wit mb i out artillery preparation shortly afl jter midnight they believed t.hfl | the previous night's artillery duflfl haci cut our wire entanglements fl the american artillery laid a liea barr;*i*-*e just a few minutes fl j thc chosen time it took the jieflj completely by surprise w during the day the fl shelled the roads with gas fl were no casualties fl toul in lorraine 1 near german soil 1 northwest of toul where th i dispatch places the americans is ln 1 the northwestern tip of french lsor i rainc the battle line here forms a i mitd salient turning suuthwestward i almost along the lorraine border i toul is one of the strongest en-fl trenched camp in europe with ver-fl dun epinal and belforf it fortn^h france's eastern defense line fl the dispatch shows thc america troops are welt north of the intiu.fl munis canal where i had been j fl sumed they were the canal havirfl previously figured in official bufl letins on american troops 9 thc dispatch confirms that !<â– sinus's men are where the webtet|_^j batt'e line is closest to german soil i the northern tip of the toul rftt ] lient is only twelve and one-halt i miles from the german fortress of j metz 1 toul vital link j in french defenses fl toul is an important link in th^h french chain of fortresses built < ifl the alsace-lorraine border other bufl warks being nancy epinal lielfofl and verdun ) s b thc following dispatch was reccivâ€”wl^m from mr parke earlier m the t_fl telling of thc effect of thc interim bombardment of thc german fl saturday night officers who have returned '__ the wrought bfl battle over war cabinet on anew senator hitchcock flays admin istration likens president to king williams answers him gallinger talks impeachment amid bitter wrangle fresh attack to be launched to-day by john temple graves staff correspondent ot thc Chicago examiner 11 tashington feb 4 senator l\l hitchcock democrat of * * nebraska to-day continued the fight started by senator cham berlain for a reorganization of the conduct of the war with a war cab inet and minister of munitions he delivered a carefully prepared speech speaking for two hours vigorous replies in behalf of the administration were made hy sen ator williams of mississippi and jbeea of missouri senator wadsworth will continue the fight for two bills to morrow the speech of senator hitchcock more than any utterance since the beginning of the war will centralize the war policy of the government upon ships hips liip / ships are crux of hitchcock plaint always foreseen and understood to be necessary in prosecution of the war multitudes of ships speedily secured now become in the light of senator hitchcock's speech abso lutely indispensable to ihe successful part our country in to play in the the nebraska senator's speech sup porting the chamberlain bill for a war cabinet was a far more for midable arraignment of the military situation than senator chamberlain's speech senator hitchcock having more time put care and patient labor in gathering and massing his evidence and presented a more compact and convincing argument in more com prehensive detail and with a more logical arrangement than senator chamberlain could make in his brief ly prepared and almost impromptu baker faces harder test to-morrow when secretary baker appears be fore the senate military committee wednesday he will face a more diffi cult task than in his great speech of last week the senate and war department are thrown once more into sharpest antagonism over the apparently con tradictory statements of the brilliant j secretary of war and the able sen ator from nebraska secretary baker told the senate i committee the war department would i have r.00,000 men in france before august and 1,500,000 men before the end of the year senator hitchcock a tranquil care ful and usually accurate senator de clarer secretary baker statement im preposterous and that the mili tary committee and every one at all informed m to the shipping nltun tlon was thunderstruck at thc ex aggeration which is right is capital query then senator hitchcock proceeded by figures to demonstrate it would require 5.000,000 tons of shipping in sÃŸonstant use to transport this num ber of men to france and to supply them when they got there th 1b the very marrow of the con continued on 4th page 1st # column

jw the temperature c3 rj j Chicago axd vicinity s f fair with i*tn;_r temperature ytur-mday hki tuesday nlgjit wednesday partly cloudy and much warmer winds becoming fresh south to southwext â– , temperatchk ( , highest lowest â€” 10 mean o Chicago examiner ft final 1 edition 1 } yol xyl no ivj.â€”a m * * * tuesday Chicago february 5 1918 tuesday reguteijd ptotsot twso af fi , t ta"*i in Chicago elsewheue d s patrat office Â«__ â€” -Â»> u v-j - o and bubcbbs three cents kaiser's palace is bombed daniels backs baker pledge of 500,000 army washington feb 4.â€”secre tary of the navy daniels referring to-night to secretary of war baker's statement that 500 000 american soldiers would be in france early in the year said he could be quoted as saying when secretary baker saya the men will be there mr ba ker is right the navy is taking over numbers of ships owned by the war department and will man them at once out of the 95,000 reserves the navy department has available army people say there will be no difficulty in in creasing pershing's army to 500,000 as he has such a large proportion of that number in france u.s calls coal in city ample government says individual cases of distress are being relieved warmer weather near despite the intense cold ranging to 10 degrees below zero chicago's fuel situation is growing steaijlly better the fuel administration an nounced last night widely circulated reports declared the coal crisis has passed beyond control lkaymond e durham chairman of the cook county fuel administration committee cited the following facts and figures total coal receipts were 2,441 cars or 139,750 tons railroads placed 765 cars in coal yards and 395 on team tracks total 57,090 tons held in railroad yards for switching were 2,048 cars or 102 400 tons 8,004 tons eor sale the commonwealth edison com pany will sell s.ooo tons direct to consumers beginning to-day eighty-pound sacks will be sold for 25 cents distribution will be made at the company's plants at 22d and fiske sts and 25th and quarrie sts the same corporation placed 100 cars at the disposal of dealers on the northwest side the weather bureau added the pre diction of steadily rising tempera tures to-day and to-morrow jmr durham asked washington to stop diversion of chicago-bound coal immediately state fuel administrator j e wil liams ordered Illinois mines to con sign their entire output to-day to do mestic consumers complaints are normal w c wyatt secretary of the coun ty administration reported com plaints yesterday did not exceed nor mal coal will be rushed to dealers in the 27th ward where conditions were most acute public schools received twenty four cars yesterday three schools â€” brentano seeley and nineteenth street school closed the clay school in hegewisch has been closed since last week schools are closed oak i'ark and river forest town ships high schools were closed indefi nitely joliet schools were ordered closed for another week relief for Chicago suburbs was promised to-day as tollows winnetka 2 cars wumette *>;' evanston 9 norwood park 1 aus-j tin 4 oak jpark 5 may wood 4 highlaml i'ark 5 and highwood 1 mrs lowden s sister loses 30,000 gems new york feb 4 the theft of 30,000 worth of jewels belonging to jmrs francis 1 carolan at the st regis hotel was reported to the police to-night mrs carolan is a daughter of tho late george m pullman of Chicago and a sister of jmrs frank o i.owden wife of the clovernor of Illinois british m p fined 2,000 for hoarding london feb 4 â€” a member of parliament john maccaw was to day fined 2,000 and costs for hoard wilson places fuel oil men under license president issues drastic decree shipment priority is given to orders for war supplies mark requa department execu tive to have charge under coal head.oftreightmovemenl by arthur constantine international news servlee staff cor respondent washington feb 4 president j wilson averted a fuel oil shortage to-day by placing distribution under the federal licensing system all distributors whose sales amount to more than 100,000 barrels annually must take out licenses from the fuel administration approximately 200 oil firms are affected by ths order the sale and use of gasoline are not affected by the order it was stated authoritatively at the fuel adminis tration a fp'rmal supplementary statement from the fuel administration also an nounced that the consumption of fuel cil would be exempt from the fuel or der of jan 17 providing for workless days war supply is insured the extension of government con trol to-day over the distribution of fuel oil insures the united states and the allies an adequate supply of oil for carrying on the war it will remove from general consumption approximately 50,000,000 barrels a year the fuel administration in an nouncing to-day that by the provi sions of the president's proclamation it would hereafter control the distri bution of fuel oil restricted its rea sons for the step to this explanation the presidential proclamation put ting certain oil distributors under li cense is for the purpose of exercising adequate control in view of the fact that transportation facilities are be coming inadequate to supply prompt ly and satisfactorily all consumers now having contracts for fuel oil in the event of insufficient trans portation facilities it is desirable that vital industries connected with the national welfare shall receive first consideration priorities announced the fuel administration listed fu ture distribution in this order of pri ority iâ€”railroads1 â€” railroads and bunker fuel 2 â€” export deliveries or shipments for the united states army or navy 3 â€” export shipments for the navies and other war purposes of the allies 4 â€” hospitals where oil is now being used as fuel s public utilities and domestic consumers now using fuel oil in cluding gas oil 6 â€” shipyards engaged in govern ment work 7 â€” navy yards bâ€”arsenals.8 â€” arsenals 9 â€” plants engaged in manufacture production and storage of food prod ucts 10 â€” army and navy cantonments where oil is now being used as fuel 11 â€” industrial consumers engaged in the manufacture of munitions and other articles under government or der 12 â€” all other classes the enforcement of thc fuel admin istration's control over oil distribu tion will he under the general di rection of mark requa of california director of the petroleum division of tlie tuel adussiissu'atiou wilson never got austro peace speech washington feb 4 â€” president wilson never received the peace qpeech of count czernin the austrian premier either before or after its de livery through any official or diplo matic channel this statement was unqualifiedly made at the state de partment to-day m'adoo puts taboo on home building wasuington feb 4 â€” secretary mcadoo to-day extended his plan for conserving capital and labor to in clude the prospective home builder he strongly advised that materials valuable labor and credit be not hkwi ctnfeht ni km iii kuehlmann and czernin quit russ parley for session in ber lin today on austria's demand vienna's pressure for peace with no annexations threatens break between central powers geneva feb 4 â€” the journal de geneve learns from berlin that strikers threw a bomb against the imperial palace troops and police dispersed the strikers trees in the parks were uprooted and sawed into pieces london feb 4 â€” the sudden re turn to berlin of dr von kuehlmann and count czernin is considered in german political circles as presaging the rupture of the negotiations with russia at brest-litovsk the conference to be held in ber lin to which the german and aus trian foreign secretaries have been summoned is to consider the general peace situation it is reported premier radoslavoff of bulgaria and the grand vizier t_mat pasha of turkey will attend the meeting say berlin advices a semi-official berlin dispatch says the high political and military con ference held there discussed the food situation and germany's aims in the east the conclusion of peace with the ukraine was especially consid ered berlin meeting likely to test teuton union by h h stansbury staff correspondent of the Chicago examiner washington feb 4.â€”adminis tration officials to-day predicted the conference scheduled to take place in berlin to-morrow between states men of austria and germ-any will be the test of future relations between the teutonic empires unofficial advices reported count czernin austrian foreign minister en route to the german capital to meet german foreign minister von kuehlmann and ceneral l,udendorff german quartermaster general the conference will bring together i the most potential political influ ences of germany and austria state department officials believe czernin has planned a vigorous pro test against the german annexation program in the east but the fact that thc conference is to take place in berlin where every influence at the command of the hohenzollerns can be brought to bear is not considered encouraging germans want two provinces the german program over which controversy has arisen is understood to be as follows russian poland to be attached to galicia the kingdom of poland thus unit ed to be joined by personal union to austria-hungary courland to be declared a duke dom lithuania to be a principality courland and lithuania to be at tached by personal union to the prus sian state czernin's objection is believed to be based on fears austria will be swept by a revolution if any plan ia adopted that will prolong the war ignore ukrasman rebels geneva feb 4 the eentral pow ers will not withdraw or qualify their | recognition of the first ukranian del jegation to the brest-lltovsk parley jas a plenipotentiary body representa tive of the ukkranlan republic count i czernin austro-hungarian foreign â€¢ minister announced at friday's ses sion of the cs.nference according to | the german account of the proceed i ings the question was brought up by the ' eolslieviki who contended the second i ukranian delegation had displaced the 1 original body two american flyers down 3 german planes daris feb 4 members of the *â– lafayette escadrille continued their brilliant exploits over the french front during the last few days bringing down three german machines thomas hitchcock jr 17 years old son of the american turf man downed two enemy airmen david e putnam of brooldine mass brought down his third machine both have been on the battle front less than three months and have not yet been transferred to the american army veeder breaks federal seals packers attorney defies heney who may start mandamus proceedings to-day henry veeder attorney for swift & co yesterday broke the seals placed on his vault by officials of the federal trade commission he re moved correspondence and records de manded of him by francis j heney special attorney for the commission mr veeder has not only violated the federal trade commission law but by breaking the seals he has further made himself liable mr heney said last night we want the records and we propose to get them heney conferred until midnight with united states district attorney clyne later he said we have not determined fully what procedure we will take but probably we will commence man damus proceedings either to-day or to-morrow to compel mr veeder to produce the records in question if this method does not prove successful there are other ways for us to act a federal grand jury is about to convene possibly it has some powers which we do not pos sess can't fish in my office the conference between heney and clyne followed veeder's point dlanlc refusal to give up the correspondence files mr veeder closed the day's contro versy with heney by issuing a type ! written statement to the press he amplified it by saying he was in | sisting only on his constitutional | rights the statement said in part much of the coirespondencc is | in the nature of questions from clients about their business and > opinions in answer thereto and are therefore or a confidential nature | and for that reason privileged under the statute mr heney probably has the right to inspect documents which i hold as custo dian for clients under investigation that right i have never denied he has not however the right to search through my personal files for the alleged purpose of ascer taining whether there is anything in those files which will be rele vant to tho inquiry papers have been taken from the files which were personal and which had absolutely no bearing upon the investigation 1 became i convinced that the inspection was a mere fishing expedition i there fore feel justified in insisting upon my constitutional rights and refuse to permit a fishing excur sipn through my files veeder late in the afternoon an nounced that ho had employed attor j ney john j healy to represent him in ! his clash with heney navy order to close cabarets says moffett buffet flats and vicious cabarets face naval supervision capt w a jmoffeit announced yesterday sec retary daniels lias ordered all dis orderly resorts within five miles of a camp closed and capt moffett says the order applies to a five-mile radius from cam grant 3-day close order given canada shops ottawa o-.t feb 4 an order was adopted by the cabinet to-night suspending the operation of manufac turing plante feb 9 10 and 11 as a conservation measure the order in cludes all munition plants the third carload of coal consigned in three weeks to the lake bluff home of stanley field now in france for the bed cross was seized yes terday lake county's fuel admin istrator lewis p erskine ordered the forty tons distributed among many families | stanley field's coal is seized for poor big drive planned byu.s and allies americans while taking small part at first expected to turn tide by increasing numbers entente outnumbers foe in man power and british are likely to strike first in flanders washington fe 4 without waiting to see whether ger many's workmen can disarm the prussian war machine the allies are preparing to deliver a smashing blow to that machine on the western front this information coming from british sources is based on reports , from the inter-allied war council both military and political consid erations were advanced it was learned for a strong allied offensive pershing's men give allies preponderance thanks to the readiness of gen pershing's forces to hold a sector of the front in lorraine the allies now feel themselves stronger than the germans in men and munitions with the prussian junkers po litical control at home threatened by strikes the allied council decide it is understood to reinforce the ger man workmen with an irresistible drive on the prussian machine at tho front the plan of campaign according to the information available to-night calls for a general allied offensive all along the front from the vosges to the sea j drive to center | in flanders but the center of the big drive will be in flanders with the eritish do i ing the heavy work hitherto the strong british thrusts have been | turned aside or repulsed with lncon ! siderable gains because the germans have been able to strip other sectors of men and guns and rush them to the defense of any threatened zone with gen pershing holding a sec tor a great number_pf veteran french fighters have been released to bolster up the line held by the french army between the americans in lorraine and the british in flanders information from british sources is that the war council considers the whole line strong enough to keep the germans busy everywhere and cripple the once great mobility of the ilin deirburg reserves . british strength to be used first flanders is to see the heaviest fighting at first partly because of british strength tn munitions and j partly because it is imperative that | the germans tie driven back upon and if possible beyond their submarine bases on the belgian coast if the general attack all along the i line develops any weakness in the ! german defenses the weak spot will ibe hammered with all thc strength | the allk can muster it was said attention was directed by one brlt ; ish authority to the fact thut the new | plan of campaign ls coincident with j american readiness to bear a share in the fighting an,l american par ! tscipation in the activities of the war council the british view is that gen persh ing's forces are now holding a vital part of the line if there be no changes one o.fi : cer said to-day the provinces of al sace and lorraine will probably be the scene of the hardest fighting ln which any of our army corps will be engage up to the end of the war 1 do not know that there was any definite purpose in so placing the american army but the fact ls that it sooner or later will occupy the two provinces which have the most practical and at the same time the most sentimental interest of any ter ritory in eurone '* germans mass 2,700,000 men on west front paris feb 4 field marshal von hindenburg has massed iso to 190 divisions totaling 2,700,000 to 2,850,000 men on the western front in preparation for the spring drive many of the troops have been drawn from the russian front about sixty-five of the divisions are being held in reserve germany still has about sixty divisions on the eastern front but they are composed of worn-out sol diers the others having been moved to the west the greatest strength of the german line in france and bel gium since last spring was 155 divisions military experts say russians wage war on rumania two divisions of the bolshevik troops routed in battle and disarmed london feb 4 official tele grams dispatched'from jassy satur day say the greater part cf the rou manian army ls engaged ir fighting russian troops the russians are overrunning mol davia and bessarabia and are con centrating in bukowina after twenty-four hours fighting the roumanians disarmed the 9th russian division which attacked galatz taking over fifty guns and surrounded and disarmed the sth russian division which attacked the ! center of the moldavian front this division was sent under con voy to russia ** fighting is ln progress between the roumanians and the bolshevik all over bessarabia as far as the dnles i ter i heds battle in lielsingfors stockholm feb 4.â€”helsin-4 | fors the capital of finland is still in the hands o the bolshevik red guard and continues to be the scene of violent street fighting sweden does not expect to inter vene in finland premier eden an nounced to-day he expressed how ever warm sympathy with the peo ple of the new republic fire on swedish vvanship ited guards f.red on a swedish gunboat and swedish steamers at the island of raefso near myantyuiuoto finland sesterday p.uosian sailors and red guard boarded the gunboat and explained they had thought the ships were carrying troops and munitions as | the vessels were going to take on ! swedish citizens leaving finland all j but the gunboat were permitted to j proceed mary's little ad leads to u s court to become a hetty green via mail was mary paulson's dream adver tisements of the instant vulcanlzer caused 600 persons to send money fsir wliich the government claims she made no satisfactory return mary whose home is at 5601 aberdeen st was indicted by a federal grand jury she will be arraigned thursday be fore judge landis pastor is sued in berwyn church fight j means smith an attorney sued the rev w clyde smith pastor of the first presbyterian church of berwyn for 25,000 yesterday a j durham an elder said attorney smith was dropped from the church last november after having driven out the previous pastor he said the rev smith had made certain state ments concerning tho attorney last sunday please mr weather man let this be true fair with rising temperature is the weather forecast for to-day the temperature will rise above the freez ing point by night and continue ris ing wednesday it was predicted the coldest recorded at the weather bu reau yesterday was 10 below at 7:45 a m it was as low a 18 below ill outlying districts pershing men beat off new attach yankee gunners learn teutonflj plans and smash massecjfl raiders with peadly barrage â– ju s forces now northwest 1 of toul 12 miles from j german fortress of metz i by newton c parke j { staff correspondent of the interna j tional news service 3 with the american abm_j in france feb 4 \ a now permitted by the ;.Â« tary censor to announce that ifl americans hold a sector ia tlie bfl tie line at a point to thc nortlr.vfl of toul m toul is the great french tortifl about forty miles to thc westflj nancy fl prompt action by the americaj^h artillery prevented another germa^h raid early to-day fl the officers who directed tfl sammies fire hare no doubt tfl heavy casualties were inflicted ufl the germans massed for attackfl learn german plans h a\d nip attack flj information was received thflj the enemy intended to attack wit mb i out artillery preparation shortly afl jter midnight they believed t.hfl | the previous night's artillery duflfl haci cut our wire entanglements fl the american artillery laid a liea barr;*i*-*e just a few minutes fl j thc chosen time it took the jieflj completely by surprise w during the day the fl shelled the roads with gas fl were no casualties fl toul in lorraine 1 near german soil 1 northwest of toul where th i dispatch places the americans is ln 1 the northwestern tip of french lsor i rainc the battle line here forms a i mitd salient turning suuthwestward i almost along the lorraine border i toul is one of the strongest en-fl trenched camp in europe with ver-fl dun epinal and belforf it fortn^h france's eastern defense line fl the dispatch shows thc america troops are welt north of the intiu.fl munis canal where i had been j fl sumed they were the canal havirfl previously figured in official bufl letins on american troops 9 thc dispatch confirms that !